COMBAT MODELING OF REMOTELY TARGETED VEHICLES AND A BATTERY AGAINST AMOVING TARGET

This paper considers a combined system composed of multiple stand-by r emotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) and a single battery against a single passive enemy target, where the target, if not killed, is allowed to c hange its location after each attack. The RPV has the duty to report o n target acquisition, to confirm a target kill, and to pass informatio n on any change in target location after each battery attack. The batt ery has the duty to attack the target on the basis of the target locat ion information provided to it by the RPV. We develop a closed-form ex pression for the time-dependent state probabilities of the system, whi ch can be used to compute several important combat measures of effecti veness, including (a) the time-varying mean and variance of the number of the RPVs being alive and of the surviving enemy target, (b) the mi ssion success, mission failure, and combat draw probabilities, and (c) the mean and Variance of the combat duration time. Illustrative numer ical examples rue solved for these combat measures, and sensitivity an alyses are performed with respect to target acquisition time and targe t kill probability. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.